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Build automation is the act of scripting or automating tasks like compiling, packaging, running tests, deployment etc.

Build automation is the act of scripting or automating a wide variety of tasks that software developers do in their day-to-day activities including things like:

  • Compiling computer source code into binary code
  • Packaging binary code
  • Running tests
  • Deployment to production systems
  • Creating documentation and/or release notes

Advantages

  • Improve product quality
  • Accelerate the compile and link processing
  • Eliminate redundant tasks
  • Minimize "bad builds"
  • Eliminate dependencies on key personnel
  • Have history of builds and releases in order to investigate issues
  • Save time and money - because of the reasons listed above.

See also , and .

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Is there an elegant way to parametrize Sass bundling per page in npm?

What I'd like to achieve is an elegant way to have a page->sass files mapping that would run sass compilation, create a special css bundle and put a link to it to the page.
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how to only print child.tag and remove pretext in xml using python

I am trying to automate a maven project with a list of plugins. I can get to the groupID, artifactID, and version and what the text reads but want to get rid of the {http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0} that comes before the tag. I am not sure exactly…
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Basic Nant task

I'm working on creating a simple Nant script that will utilize the assemblyname::get-version function which is documented here: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/0.85/help/functions/assemblyname.get-version.html I'm getting a failure "Unknown…
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Copy files from one TFS projects collection to another

What would be a reliable way to copy some files from a project within TFS projects collection A to another project within TFS projects collection B regularly. The latest from source is to be taken and check into the destination, overriding conflicts…
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Scraping product's colors of an online store using python

So, I am scraping an online store and having trouble in items that have more than one color, as for each color available sizes & price is changing so i need to click on each color and extract the data for it. My problem is in clicking on each…
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Repository folder structure and automated building from that structure

We are upgrading our source control (most likely to Vault) at work and are moving to the branch methodology, and are having some problems with working out the folder structure to use. We intend to use the Trunk as the development line, and a branch…
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AWS Lambda SAM Deployment Automation

We have an application utilizing API<==>Lambda (Python)<==>S3. We wanted to automated the deployment process. We are using SAM for local testing and deployment. I wanted to know, do I need to run SAM DEPLOY all the time manually? Or is there a…
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How to automate NodeJS/npm dependency updates?

I'm maintaining some large NodeJS applications(micro-services, apps), which consume many(at least 100+) dependencies. Updating those dependencies to fix a security vulnerability forces me to spend valuable development time. Is there any way to…
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How do I view the contents of my build artifact folder in Azure Dev Ops?

I am trying to modify my configuration file, dataSettings.json, located somewhere inside the build artifacts folder. Figuring out the correct access path to it is like working in the dark. Using "**/dataSettings.json" as a path doesn't work in my…
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How can I automate a python code for many cells?

I have data for a cell and from these data, I made a python code to extract some parameters. However, I want to repeat the same procedure for 100 cells (that have different initial data/ input). Is there a way to automate the process?
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How to change properties of already existing OLEDB connection in excel using powershell?

I have a excel (connection.xlsx) which imports data from a Old.csv using OLEDB connection. Connection String looks like below in excel: Connection String: Provider=Microsoft.Mashup.OleDb.1;Data Source=$Workbook$;Location=Old;Extended…
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Using a project as a compile time dependency without including it's compile time dependencies?

I have two Gradle projects, project A which is a war and project B which is a jar. Project A depends on project B. Project B has a compile dependency C. When I build project B the compile dependency C is not included in the generated jar which is…
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Successfully built Asp.Net Web Application on Jenkins. Isn't Jenkins Server sophisticated enough to use said built solution on IIS?

At work, our C# application was developed in a development computer with the following( and our application builds and runs correctly in the development environment): -.NET Framework 4 -Visual Studio 2010 -ASP.NET Web Forms At work, we have the…
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How to checkout a project from GitHub and build it through command line and use it in eclipse workspace for edit?

As an initial step, checking out a project from GitHub and building it through eclipse taking too much time in my case, I decided to automate that initial process through command line. And I'm able to do that successfully. But I wanted use that…
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How to automate Grails build?

What tools shall be used to automate Grails build? Ant? Shell? Would be good to read some official documentation about it.
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